Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by Douglas A. Anderson

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. Anderson with Ludwig Tieck, John Buchan, Austin Tappan Wright, Richard Garnett, E.A. Wyke-Smith, George MacDonald, Clemence Housman, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Frank R. Stockton, James Branch Cabell, E. Nesbit, Andrew Lang, Thomas Carlyle (Translator), David Lindsay, Kenneth Morris, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, Francis Stevens, H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Machen, L. Frank Baum

436 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien ...